Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Race, empire and First World War writing /

Race, empire and First World War writing / edited by Santanu Das. - 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Originally published: 2011.

Introduction / Santanu Das --
'An army of workers': Chinese indentured labour in First World War France / Paul J. Bailey --
Sacrifices, sex, race: Vietnamese experiences in the First World War / Kimloan Hill --
Indians at home, Mesopotamia and France, 1914-1918: towards an intimate history / Santanu Das --
'We don't want to die for nothing': Askari at war in German East Africa, 1914-1918 / Michelle Moyd --
France's legacy to Demba Mboup? A Senegalese Griot and his descendants remember his military service during the First World War / Joe Lunn --
Representing Otherness: African, Indian, and European soldiers' letters and memoirs / Christian Koller --
Living apart together: Belgian civilians and non-white troops and workers in wartime Flanders / Dominiek Dendooven --
Nursing the Other: the representation of colonial troops in French and British First World War nursing memoirs / Alison S. Fell --
Imperial captivities: colonial prisoners of war in Germany and the Ottoman Empire, 1914-1918 / Heather Jones --
Images of Te Hokowhitu A Tu in the First World War / Christopher Pugsley --
'He was black, he was a white man, and a dinkum Aussie': race and empire in revisiting the Anzac legend / Peter Stanley --
The quiet Western Front: the First World War and New Zealand memory / Jock Phillips --
'Writing out of opinions': Irish experience and the theatre of the First World War / Keith Jeffery --
'Heaven grant you strength to fight the battle for your race': nationalism, Pan-Africanism and the First World War in Jamaican memory / Richard Smith --
Not only war: the First World War and African American literature / Mark Whalan --
Afterword: Death and the afterlife: Britain's colonies and dominions / Michèle Barrett.

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World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.
World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects.
Imperialism.
Indigenous peoples.

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